C3 Cutting Out

[tompoole84]

My partner brought a brand new Citroen C3 1.1L in May 2007 everything was fine for 3 months and then we experienced the engine cutting out whilst slowing down, i.e. coming to traffic lights or roundabouts. We have taken it to the service centre 3 times now and they say they have replaced the coil and fuel management system. This was fine till 2 weeks in when it cut out at 30Mph on a roundabout.

 

I have seen a few articles on this forum regarding this but just wondering if anyone has found a fix for this.

 

Other problems are now including:

Rear suspension squeaking

Very loud fan noise when on low setting

Squeaking whilst in hard left

 

Any help would be much appreciated

[raveydavey]

I can't help with the cutting out, but as for "Rear suspension squeaking" that is due to different atmospheric conditions here and in France.

 

You see the car is a French vehicle so is set up for driving in France. The atmospherics are different over here which is what causes the squeaking. The phrase that pays : "They all do that" was then quoted.

 

At least that is what the dealer told me when I mentioned it at the first service...did I mention I don't use that dealer any more?

 

I would suggest that you consider getting Citroen involved, but as I'm still awaiting a call back from December 2006 from customer services about a safety related issue, I probably wouldn't bother.

 

Seriously your options are try another dealer if there is one locally to you, or consider getting an independent engineers report. However, intermittent faults can be very difficult to diagnose. Did the dealer say what was actually at fault with the car, or had they simply replaced what the computer told them was to blame?